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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level managers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 18 Mar 2013
- News
Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview
- September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Compilation
Laura Barr: Work Patterns at Ditto (B)
By: Leslie A. Perlow
According to her managers, Laura is an "ideal female employee." Depicts her life and provides a log of how she spends her time. This is a rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Perlow, Leslie A. "Laura Barr: Work Patterns at Ditto (B)." Harvard Business School Compilation 404-056, September 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- July 2022
- Teaching Note
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This Note provides guidance for teaching "TraceTogether," HBS Case No. 820-111. View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Skeete Tatum explains. “We combine the leverage of technology with the human touch points that are critical in managing a career. This enables us to level the playing field for women in the workforce by... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
But Wilcox has been at the helm of world-changing companies before. Prior to his latest venture, Transatomic Power, Wilcox (MBA 1995) was the CEO of E Ink, the company that created the display technology for the Kindle, Nook, and other... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
On film, few characters are more obviously villainous than the extremely bad boss. There's Star Wars' Darth Vader (who manages a disrespectful underling by strangling him with his mind), Katharine Parker in Working Girl (who shamelessly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Fast Answer
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
aspects of business and management in emerging markets. Frost & Sullivan - reports on industry research, growing opportunities, market trends encompassing various tech related fields. Statista - quick statistics and analysis on... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative. That’s because the challenges that executives face today aren’t issues of technology but a question of “how to create an organization that can actually utilize digital tools... View Details
Keywords: April White
- January 1986 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Horizon Group
Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed raising money from some wealthy investors by forming an R&D Limited Partnership. Development of the program (an... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Business Plan; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Horizon Group." Harvard Business School Case 286-058, January 1986. (Revised March 1997.)
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last month. Then there's the company's business model: selling... View Details
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
tight-knit cohort to resonate ideas among while simultaneously being integrated into the diverse HBS and SEAS ecosystems. The program perfectly mirrors my own interest in redefining the relationship between business management and View Details
- Web
The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
The Green Industrial Strategy Project More Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project examines how business and government can create, scale, and compete in clean tech markets to accelerate decarbonization. As clean View Details
- Profile
Andrew Boudreau
different: a student-run startup researching intellectual property. “Technology Commercialization enthralled me,” says Andy. After he and his friends failed to land jobs at Hopkins’ technology transfer office, they decided to strike out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
expansion of the service-based economy, rapid technological innovation, deregulation and privatization, and today's knowledge revolution as forces that are "driving companies to fundamentally rethink their business models and radically... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Teaching Note
X: The Foghorn Decision
By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Climate Change; Green Technology; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge; Product Design; Product Development; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry
- February 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Tracmail
By: Paul W. Marshall, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
Tracmail, an online customer service company based in India, is trying to handle support services (e-mail and chat) for companies worldwide. In its quest to break into global markets, Tracmail is contemplating a joint venture with a U.S. call center. Tracmail is also... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; India; United States
Marshall, Paul W., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Suma Raju. "Tracmail." Harvard Business School Case 801-037, February 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk. Historically, these problems were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
Shirish Nimgaonkar
Shirish is an entrepreneur, advisor to and investor in multiple technology companies, with a focus on software and AI. He is currently the Founder and CEO of an AI enabled predictive automation software company. In the past, he has been a... View Details